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The Practice of Political Gnosticism

Antoinette15 Wrote: Mar 15, 2010 7:20 AM
Where have you been the last few years? How can you expect the people in Washington,DC, will understand the failures of the World with their pass socialism when the school boards are changing history? President Obama is an example of our "wonderful" education system. He is touted as a brilliant Constitutional lawyer. Of course he is and that is why, in his opinion, the Constitution is passe. And, it only gets worse. Look at the Texas school board's rewriting history or the one in North Caroline that doesn't believe the tenth grade students are not capble of studing all the history of the beginning of this Nation. They have decieded to start in the year1877. Good-bye to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill...

Twenty-five years ago this weekend, Mikhail Gorbachev took the reins of power in the now defunct, late-but-not-lamented Soviet Union, upon the death of Konstantin Chernenko. It is an open question as to whether or not Chernenko had been alive for long before this, or was he just propped up? And maybe it is just a coincidence that the movie Weekend at Bernie's came out just a few years later. After all, the director was of Bulgarian (Soviet Bloc) descent. Just sayin’.

At any rate, Gorbachev’s rise to power is seen now in hindsight as the moment the tide began to turn...

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